Teachers and pedagogists of Belarus, Russia and Poland discussed pre-university education at the Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno.
Within two days, teachers and educators from the three countries will share their experience, get knowledge and exchange impressions.
Yury Belykh, vice-rector for academic matters at the Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno said, greeting the participants of the conference: “The topic of the conference "Methodology and technologies of pre-university education" is relevant. At present, it is important not only to support the interest of young people in education, but also to stimulate it. I hope that the result of your work during the scientific forum will be new ideas, cooperation projects, and this will all have a logical continuation. I wish everyone a good work and a good day!”
The conference takes place at the Yanka Kupala State University for the second time. And, as Svetlana Kovalevskaya, Head of the Department of General Secondary and Preschool Education of the Head Education Department of the Grodno Oblast Executive Committee noted, Grodno University became a center for discussion of topical issues of modern education not by chance.
Svetlana Stanislavovna said: “Grodno region has been a leader of the Belarusian education system for many years. The success of Grodno school students and university students would not have been possible without work of the Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno. As the result of this Grodno region became one of the best regions of the country based on the results of centralized testing and participation of students in subject Olympiads. It is very pleasant that the Education Department of the Grodno Oblast Executive Committee and the university cooperate and hold together many events, among which are the forum "Prospects for talented youth", handing of 100-ball certificates to applicants. All of them bear fruit and will enlarge the treasury of the region's success in the field of education”.
Representatives of St. Petersburg State Economic University, Don State Technical University, BSU and Grodno University gave a speech to participants at the plenary session. The lectures spoke about the place of the system of innovative educational technologies in the strategy of pre-university education, a system of continuous education, peculiarities of adaptation of foreign citizens in BSU, professional self-determination of pupils, future applicants, and the qualitative designing of educational programs.
During the conference sections will be worked and the participants will consider the technologies of pre-university education, innovative forms of career guidance and innovations in the training of foreign citizens.
A master class and a seminar are to be held at the university on November 17, 2017.
Teachers, psychologists, social teachers of institutions of general secondary education were invited to the master class "My STARTUP" for professional self-determination of high school students.
During the meeting, high school students will try to solve an open heuristic task and answer the question: “My “profession of the future”- what is it?” The event is focused on involvement of adolescents in creative productive activities aimed at search for personal meaning, weighing various factors, steps regarding profession choice, adjustment of it to adolescents further aspirations, self-realization in the future sphere of professional activity, lifestyle and culture in general.
The seminar "From creative search, improvement of professional competencies - to Olympus" will be devoted to research activity of pupils. It will be held by Andrei Herman, Dean of the Faculty of Physics and Technology, and Irina Korlyukova, Head of the Department of Current Technologies of Pre-university Education. Participants plan to discuss issues of research activities of students, organizational and methodological features of research activities of school students and system of activities on working with endow students of the Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno.
